Posts Tagged ‘The pot’


Poker Pot Odds: Why They’re Vital If You Want To Be A Winning Player

Poker pot odds, just what are they? When we are referring to pot odds we are actually talking about a crucial element in the game of poker. The pot odds are determined by evaluating the size of the pot and the bet that is about to be made. Let’s take a little example for clarification [...]

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Texas Holdem Poker : Can you explain pot odds? If there is 200$ in the pot and you have to call 50$?

Do you do the 50/200 or 50/250? I have read both in common holdem books. I understand outs and implied odds. Say there’s $150 in the pot. If your opponent bets $50, then there’s now $200 in the pot and you have to call $50. The pot odds in this case are 200/50 or 4 [...]

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Different Rules of Poker Omaha and Texas Holdem and at German Poker

Just as you need to learn the rules of Texas HoldEm to play poker in Germany, you also need to learn the poker Omaha rules.  The two poker games are quite similar in the rules, but in Omaha you receive four cards dealt face down from the dealer instead of two. The rest of the [...]

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Poker Strategy Tip: How To Calculate Odds

In this poker strategy tip we’ll show you how to calculate odds. This can not be better illustrated than through an example and that is exactly what is going to be done here.

Let’s say you are playing online hold’em and you have a hand of 8, 9 suited in a game with the small blind of $3 and the big blind of $6. Then you call the raise that came from one player and all the other players do that also. There are six players in total in the poker room. So the pot added up to $36 or more from now.

In the flop, the cards you can see are J…

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